Skybox texturing in 45 seconds

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How to retexture your skybox. I'm sure that most of you know how to do this, but I still get too many questions regarding this.

LIST OF SKYBOXES

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_List

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• source
• sdk
• hammer
• tutorial
• changing
• skybox
• texture

[CerebralZombie]

So my map for some reason shows my map again in the skybox? Since it's pretty much shows two of my maps looking one way, it causes it to lag very badly. How would I go about this?

[3kliksphilip]

@CerebralZombie Don't have the sky_camera entity in the same skybox as your main level.

[Codi190]

@3kliksphilip Hey it works ! But my sky looks like a big cube , how do i make a sky like yours ? Your sky looks so perfect 3kliks

[3kliksphilip]

@Codi190 I'm not quite sure how you're trying to do a skybox any differently to the way I am. It should look the same. If you have texture detail on low, it might have more seams around the corners of the individual sky pictures.

[Soopination]

THANK GOD Someone on this planet acctually decided to do a tutorial where they actually get a point across quickly and directly instead of jabbering on constantly about themselves and why you should subscribe.

Props to you.

[3kliksphilip]

@Soopination I am so amazing, subscribe!!!!! /jk

[3kliksphilip]

@paintcan176 Thanks, I have my exams at the moment. Once I've finished University I'll be releasing more. I've actually got 3 ready to release, but it wouldn't make sense until the whole series is complete, and I hate to commit myself to things half way through. Much like Valve hates doing episodic content :P

[klb2000000]

@lmnlmno Try and run what?

[lmnlmno]

@klb2000000 try and run it..goodluck

[DeathronedPictures]

what's the name of a map

[SquaredE2]

So I made my skybox, and when I compiled it, the game ran it fine but when I finished loading, the textures were all weird. Sometimes you would see the skybox through other objects, as if the texture was on the wall you were looking at. Am I doing something blatantly stupid?

[Blaze6108]

@klb2000000

It won 't. The skybox is not just a box with sky textures on it. It's much more. The box in Hammer won't really have the sky textures on its sides, it will create a kind of big, seamless visual system wich moves together with the player, like if it's clipped to its eyes (ouch!), resulting in a sky-looking visual. Any surface with the skybox texture on it will allow the sky to be displayed trought it. It's just called skybox because in hammer you use a box. It's very hard to explain.

[klb2000000]

@3kliksphilip Wouldn't it look better with a giant sphere instead of a giant square. A SkySphere instead of a SkyBox would look much better in my opinion.

[LilKammo1]

There's no 45 second

[SUICIDALthe1ST]

How did you do that last bit?!

[MathieuCore2]

i like the ending of all your video

[Codi190]

@Blaze6108 its ok i found out the texture was doing that